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I have Smallworld 2.5 installed on two computers (Steam) at home. I am trying to get the local multiplayer to work, with no success.

I tried disabling the firewall on both computers, and creating the game on either computer, but I can't "see" the game started on the other computer.

Please note that both computers use the same Steam account. I do not know if local play is supposed to work this way, but I would expect that if this were the issue, I would see the game but be warned that it cannot be joined.

I am not able to find information online about how to troubleshoot local multiplayer issues.

One computer uses Windows 8.1 update 1. The other one is XP (SP3 I guess).

Both connected by Wi-Fi.

I can ping both ways.

I do not have a third party firewall installed on either computer, and Windows firewall is completely disabled. It is a little difficult understanding what the firewall issue could be, although I obviously cannot rule out missing something, somewhere.

Let me know if there is additional information that would be useful to you.

I installed the game on a second XP computer, and it works between both XP machines (beta 2.5). It works with the firewall enabled on these two XP computers.

On the 8.1 computer, is there any service I might have disabled or configured in a way that would prevent connections from being established beside the firewall? Are there logs that could help pinpoint the issue?